Between the late 1950s and the late 1970s fertility began a persistent major decline in countries containing almost four-fifths of the world’s population. The exceptions that did not follow within a further decade were nearly all found in three regions: sub-Saharan Africa, Arab Southwest Asia, and Melanesia. The range of populations involved in the decline was unpredicted and unprecedented. Few developing countries had ever before had a sustained fertility decline, while the West had immediately beforehand been experiencing either stable fertility levels or, because of the postwar “baby boom,” rising levels.
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Caldwell, J. C. (2007). The Globalization of Fertility Behavior. In Demographic Transition Theory (pp. 249–271). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4498-4_11
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